Identification key plate



May 7, 1929. c. LORBER 1,711,736

IDENTIFICATION KEY PLATE Filed June 12, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN V ENTOR.

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Patented May 7, 1929. l

UNITED. STATES CHARLES LOBBER, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

IDENTIFICATION KEY PLATE.

Application filed June 12,

This invention relates to key holders and has special reference to a keyholder combined with an advertising and registering til I Fine importantobject of the invention is to provide a simple form of key holderWhichwill serve to support a number of keys and will also provide anattractive advertising medium for hotels, department stores and otherinstitutions desiring to keep their business promincn tly before thepublic.

A further important object of the invention is to provide a key holderof novel construction adapted to be used in connection with registeringsets of keys so that, if lost, the keys may be returned to the owner.

v With the above and other objects in View as will be hereinafterapparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of,construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed. p

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate likeparts in the several views, and: I

Figure 1 is an enlarged. face view of one form of key holder constructedin accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figure 1, the key hook beingshown in full lines on one side of the support and in dotted lines onthe other side thereof.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing a second form of keyholder.

Figure 4 is a section on the line 41 of Figure 3 but showing how one keyhook may be arranged on one side of the supporting plate and another onthe opposite side.

Figure 5 is a detail section showing the swiveling head on the ring.

Figure 6 is a faceview of a third form of key holder to an enlargedscale.

Figure 7 .is a side view of a third form.

Figure 8 is a face view of a fourth form.

In the forms of the device shown in Figures 1 to i there is provided aflat plate 10 which may be of metal, celluloid, or othersuitablematerial, the plate being preferably rectangu- 1928. Serial No. 284,732.

lar in shape. In Figures 1 and 2 the form there disclosed is providedwith openings near one of its shorter edges which are reinforced byeyelets 11 while in Figures 3 and 4 similar'openings are arranged inpairs, the openings of each pair being closed together and provided'witheyelets 12.

In the form of the device shown in Figures 6 to 8 there is provided ametal plate 13 having one end straight and rolled over to form a tubularbead whichis slit at one or more placesas indicated at 14 to provide oneor more ring receiving eyes 15. The other end of this plate is providedwith a key hole slot 16 for attachment of the plate to a trousers buttonor the like. Each of these forms is employed witha key holder consistingof a ring 17 having a radially extending shank 18 on which is swiveled akeyhook 19, the portion of the shank extending through the hook beingflattened as at 20 to prevent separation of the hook and ring. v

In Figure 1 each ring 17 is engaged. in a respective opening as clearlyshown in that Figure. Now, these openings being near the top the hookcan lie on one side or the other of the plate 10 as clearly shown inFigure 2, being simply swung to either side. In the form shown inFigures 3 and 4 each ring is engaged through a pair of eyelets and maybe positioned on either side of the'plate 10 but cannot be shifted fromone side to the other. In the forms shown in Figures 6 to 8 the ring isengaged in the respective eye 15.

In each of these forms there may be provided on one or both faces of theplate advertising matter as indicated at 21 and a registration number asindicated at 22.

There has thus been provided a simple and eflicient device of the kinddescribed and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form andconstruction of the invention without departing from the material spiritthereof. It is not, therefore, desired to confine the invention to theexact form herein shown and described, but it is desired to include allsuch as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, What ring extending through saidpair of openis claimed as new, is: ings, a key hook swiveled to saidring, and 10 1. In combination, a stiff supporting plate eyelets in saidopenings reinforcing the edges having a pair of openings formed therein,a of the openingsand through which said ring 5 ring extending throughsaid pair of openpasses.

ings, and a key hook swiveled to said ring. In testimony whereof I afiixmy signature.

2. In combination, a stifi supporting plate a 7 having a pair ofopenings formed therein, a CHARLES LORBER.

